Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[vanaii]

Just about the worst example you could have picked given the creator has been dead near half a century.

Not really; the canon is canon, but new stuff by new people doesn't have to be. I'd happily take a Muppets LOTR series if it's fun, even if it lampoons the canon written 50 years ago.

That said, it's certainly a bonus if it precisely falls in line with established lore. My issue is with telling someone far more qualified than I that something can't be done because of some triviality written long ago. Especially if that triviality is a throwaway line, a forgotten phrase in an appendix, or something the author withheld from publication during their lifetime. Saying something might be done better next time, saying I didn't quite buy something presented in the narrative in hopes we might get clarification, maybe daydreaming about "what if" certain scenarios come to pass-- all of that is fair game, though I say that with full knowledge whoever's making something could find something better on their own. It's a case of saying something "can" be done, rather than saying something that already exists "cannot" be done.

Sometimes that works out, sometimes it doesn't. I'm glad the Amazon series happened, because something happening is much more interesting than something remaining unplublished forever because it's not perfect.